Re: Electricity vs Petrol/Diesel prices
"...then budgeting for a new battery every 2 to 4 years (longer if you do not drive the vehicles complete range every day)."
And for anyone planning on multiple 'leccy trucks, the initial one off cost of plumbing in a couple of MW of charging points. You need to plan for multiple trucks being at home base at the same time with turnaround deadlines to meet. And maybe further upgrades if expanding the ;leccy fleet/replacing more diesels/petrol trucks. Depending on the yard location, that might be a large expense.
I was just watching an episode of Supertruckers the other night. That company has a fleet of 90 trucks and one of their jobs involved 8 trucks shifting 16 heavy tracked army vehicles in a single job. That's 8 trucks that need to start the job fully charged. Their base is a farm in the middle of nowhere. Plumbing in an extra multi-MW power line is not going to be cheap.
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